Blogging for Bliss
Subtitle: crafting your own online journal
By: Tara Frey
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lark Books
Published: August 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781600595110
Subjects: Blogs -- Design
Description: Today’s crafting community is online, connected, and blissfully blogging about their work and ideas. Blogging is hot in this highly creative world—and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at them. Everyone from knitters and beaders to scrapbookers and altered artists will find the practical information and visual inspiration they need to create an artful online journal. 

Thanks to hundreds of gorgeous screen grabs from the very best blogs, a thorough introduction to the tools of the trade, and instructions that virtually take you by the hand, even beginners will swiftly go from blank screen to colorful, enticing pages. Those who already have a blog, but want to enhance their presence on the Web, will learn how to add banners and graphics, take the perfect shots, crop and size photos, establish links, and attract an audience of eager readers. 

Best of all, readers will meet some of the web’s most popular creative bloggers, including Alicia Paulson (Posie Gets Cozy), Gabreial Wyatt (Vintage Indie), Emily Martin (Inside A Black Apple), Lidy Baars (Little French Garden House), Heather Bullard (Vintage Inspired Living), and Serena Thompson and Teri Edwards (The Farm Chicks).

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About the Author:

Since 2004, Tara Frey’s blog {tara frey: typing out loud} has inspired thousands with its honest, well-written, and often funny prose about subjects both professional and personal. Her blog was honored twice as a Typepad Favorite Blog, featured in Artful Blogging Magazine and receives close to 200,000 hits per month. Her articles about the lives and blogs of creative bloggers have appeared in Romantic Homes and Romantic Country Magazines. 

She lives with her husband and two children in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Readers can connect with Tara at www.tarafrey.com